Galanes on Gossip; Poet Billy Collins; Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 21, 2014

On today’s show: New York Times Social Q’s columnist Philip Galanes tackles your questions and quandaries about gossip! Billy Collins, two-term Poet Laureate of the United States talks about his first compilation of work in 12 years. Scholar Martha Werner and artist Jen Bervin talk about a new book of Emily Dickinson’s poems that she wrote on scraps of envelopes.

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